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letterblade) wrote2011-05-17 01:56 pm
letterblade) wrote2011-05-17 01:56 pm
So I seem to have kind of forgotten about this journal...
Bleh.
In part, I suspect, because my recent fannish activity has actually been on LiveJournal. (The kink_las challenge that I've been involved in. Which seems to have stalled out for the moment.) And in part because I've been trying to diminish my fandom involvement. Apart from kink_las, I've barely written fic in a while. I haven't really been involved in active fannish discussion and general geeking/squeeing, outside of a few in-person friends, for years.
I miss it.
At any rate. I'm going to be trying to make use of this journal again. For fandom stuff. As was its intent. I also need to scrape together an update of my fic archive, as it's been several years. (Which means I need to re-acquaint myself with the slapdash PHP code I put together to streamline the indexes. Here's hoping I remembered comments.) In the meantime, I'm considering uploading to Archive of Our Own. Because that's an archive that I like and actually seems to be active. Skyehawke used to be my secondary archive, but I haven't used that in a while. I also can't quite decide whether to put up everything at AoOO, or just the stuff that I'm proud of and/or is popular. (i.e. do I bother with all my old FMA drabbles and crap like that?)
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kink_bingo this year, because as the deadline was coming up, I was feeling overwhelmed with the concept of being involved with fannish stuff again. And not having much luck writing something. And I wanted to give myself an excuse to not sign up next year and get pummeled by the challenge again (as happened the first year I did it.)
And...yeah. Fandom. Of course, the two fandoms I'm currently most interested in either don't exist (Xenosaga) or seem to have faded considerably with time (Kingdom Hearts). Such is my luck.
I have things to attend to. :D
In part, I suspect, because my recent fannish activity has actually been on LiveJournal. (The kink_las challenge that I've been involved in. Which seems to have stalled out for the moment.) And in part because I've been trying to diminish my fandom involvement. Apart from kink_las, I've barely written fic in a while. I haven't really been involved in active fannish discussion and general geeking/squeeing, outside of a few in-person friends, for years.
I miss it.
At any rate. I'm going to be trying to make use of this journal again. For fandom stuff. As was its intent. I also need to scrape together an update of my fic archive, as it's been several years. (Which means I need to re-acquaint myself with the slapdash PHP code I put together to streamline the indexes. Here's hoping I remembered comments.) In the meantime, I'm considering uploading to Archive of Our Own. Because that's an archive that I like and actually seems to be active. Skyehawke used to be my secondary archive, but I haven't used that in a while. I also can't quite decide whether to put up everything at AoOO, or just the stuff that I'm proud of and/or is popular. (i.e. do I bother with all my old FMA drabbles and crap like that?)
I defaulted on
kink_bingo this year, because as the deadline was coming up, I was feeling overwhelmed with the concept of being involved with fannish stuff again. And not having much luck writing something. And I wanted to give myself an excuse to not sign up next year and get pummeled by the challenge again (as happened the first year I did it.)And...yeah. Fandom. Of course, the two fandoms I'm currently most interested in either don't exist (Xenosaga) or seem to have faded considerably with time (Kingdom Hearts). Such is my luck.
I have things to attend to. :D
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Though there are other fandoms I was exposed to that early that I don't have shipfic limitations on. Star Trek, for example. Though Myst is unusual in that, with very few exceptions (mostly in BoT), the story focuses entirely on a single family, so everything is either canon or wrong. So that kind of sinks in as a blanket limiter, along with the overall inclinations of the fandom...
Huzzah! for developing an early OT3 habit. :D One of my childhood things-that-I-read was Elfquest, so I think I kind of subliminally absorbed the idea pretty early on. (It's actually lampshaded in canon, when a wise elder asks one leg of the primary love triangle if it could be settled as a triad, and he just laughs and shakes his head, because he and the other guy Would Not Work Out. But this is not to say there aren't other triads/moresomes floating around.)
Ahhh, yeah, I can see why that is a fandom that gets no love, with how popular the reboot is. (I have seen neither, though I'd like to see at least some of both at some point.) And most of what I know about the original is through fandom osmosis, which is to say that Apollo and Starbuck are married.
I agree with the awesomeness of space opera femmeslash. So agree.
...damn it, I think you have awakened an unknown craving!
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I think you're right about how fixed the Myst canon is, and that definitely affects it. Oh well, I will just have to fight the good fight, be the only one doing it, and keep posting at AO3. Between Myst non-het and BSG classic femmeslash, I think I am just doomed to being the sole champion of rare pairings.
Yeah, now I'm wanting to go looking for those novel notes where I was working on a space opera, because there was a main pairing in that universe that was femmeslash. If you find any good fandoms for it let me know, I could definitely use some.